STOP AND THINK Those who turn back, remember the ordeal. Those who persevere, remember the adventure. (Milo Arnold, Christian author) This quote is presumably from Arnold’s book, The Adventure Called Marriage. In the broader context of life, it is just as appropriate....
STOP AND THINK Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike; they die without any idea of death. . . (Voltaire, 18th century French Enlightenment philosopher) At first, that last statement might seem like a good thing. For animals, perhaps,...
STOP AND THINK The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. (Martin Luther King Jr.) In America this is Martin Luther King, Jr., day, commemorating a leader in...
STOP AND THINK Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. (St. Francis of Assisi) We like to jump to the end, don’t we? We want to dream, to create, to build—sometimes before we’ve done the necessary...
STOP AND THINK Nature always takes her time. Great oaks don’t become great overnight. (Andrew Matthews, international speaker and author) Patience is not a virtue to be found easily in modern society. We want what we want, and we want it right now. But almost anything...
STOP AND THINK We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. (C. S. Lewis, British Christian apologist) As Mark Twain pointed out in an earlier “Stop and Think” quote, man is capable of knowing right and wrong. However, the...
STOP AND THINK With our thoughts we make the world. (Buddha) Perhaps Buddha was thinking that we make our own world by the way we think, and that is certainly true to a certain extent. We can’t always choose our environment or circumstances, but we can control how we...
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. (Voltaire, 18th century French Enlightenment philosopher) We hear a lot about addictions today. There are all kinds, apparently—drugs, alcohol, food disorders, pornography—you name it. Some of them are...
STOP AND THINK When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived. (Henry David Thoreau, 19th century American author and philosopher) Simply adding months to months and years to years is merely existing, not living. Learning, doing, achieving—these...
STOP AND THINK To give and not expect anything in return; to give for no special time or season … to give for the sake of giving … has a life of its own—an elevated one. (Inspiration Line) Jesus said that it is more blessed to give than to receive....
STOP AND THINK Your happiness has less to do with your circumstances (results included) than it has to do with your perspective. (Tom Roy, founder of a ministry to professional ballplayers) We are inclined to blame our circumstances or someone else when things...
STOP AND THINK It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. (Thomas Paine, 18th century English-American political theorist and revolutionary) If you are careful to speak only the truth, you are not afraid to have your word tested and examined. You...